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Show y India Hears of Ascetics Keeping Faith in Death PATNA, India U.R The following follow-ing story has reached here from a village in Shahabad, where the incident in-cident is said to have occurred- Six Jain ascetics were sitting in mediation in the village temple. The room was lignted by a hanging hang-ing oil lamp which suddenly fell on the straw on which they sat, setting it afire. The ascetics, forbidden to move or talk during religious mediation, sat still while the flames rose around them. r. |